Trivia / Nope

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• Actor-Inspired Element: According to Angel's actor Brandon Perea, the audition dialogue Jordan Peele wrote for Angel indicated a very happy, upbeat character. Perea didn't personally find that type of character to be fitting for the electronics store job he works, as he found that workers in that type of retail job are often visibly unhappy to be there. He decided to play Angel as such in his audition tape, and Peele loved his interpretation so much that he rewrote the character accordingly.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Brandon Perea stated that he signed onto the film despite not even knowing its synopsis or name just because it was a Jordan Peele film.
• Based on a Dream: The entire sequence with Gordy attacking the people on the set of a sitcom seems eerily reminiscent of a nightmare that Jordan Peele had and described on Twitter in 2014.
• Blooper: When Emerald sees the issue of MAD Magazine lampooning the Gordy's Home incident, it gives the publication date as July 1997, and other pop culture events mentioned on the cover such as the release of the film Dante's Peak and the Heaven's Gate mass suicide match with this date. However, every other instance that references the event places it in 1998, including when it's actually depicted in the movie itself.
• Deleted Scene:
  • Viewers who took part in the film's test screening have stated the Gordy flashback had an extra element to it that was cut in the final release; specifically, it featured a stalker-ish fan of Gordy's Home who made his way to the film set with a gun, and by chance arrived in time to shoot Gordy after the rampage had passed. It's believed this part was cut due to it not fitting well with the rest of the flashback, though shots from that part of the scene can still be seen in trailers.
  • OJ sees a hiker coming over the mountain ridge, then talks to Lucky, and in the next shot, the hiker is gone, possibly having been eaten by Jean Jacket. The hiker is played by Gordy actor Terry Notary.
• Enforced Method Acting: Prior to the filming of the scene where OJ and Em meet Angel for the first time, Brandon Perea was both forbidden by Peele and opted to forbid himself from meeting Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer (who had already formed a bond) on set, as the characters' first interactions were meant to be very awkward. Peele admitted to feeling that he was throwing Perea into the deep end by having him interact with two highly charismatic actors for the first time while shooting a scene, but stated that Perea held his own.
• Method Acting: As costume designer Alex Boviard explains, Daniel Kaluuya wasn't acting as OJ throughout filming, but maintained the character's sense of quiet detachment off-camera, which was very different from his own joking, gregarious personality. It initially threw her off during wardrobe fittings, as Kaluuya didn't seem to like being fitted or feel enthusiastic about the costume choices, but she learned to interpret it as how OJ would react to that kind of experience.
• Missing Trailer Scene:
  • A few alternate takes were used in the trailers that did not appear in the film itself. The first trailer features an alternate take of Emerald's ranch monologue, while the final trailer features an alternate take of Emerald and OJ celebrating after Holst brings his IMAX camera (which was then turned into an official GIF).
  • In the trailer, OJ says, "I don't think they take you if you don't look at it." In the film, "they take" is replaced with "it eats", most likely to preserve The Reveal.
  • Both the first and final trailers have some rather strange scenes in them that are not only missing from the film, but don't seem to fit into it either. Among the first trailer's montage of rapid-fire, unsettling imagery, there's a shot of a crab crawling through what appears to be a diorama of the Gordy's Home set, and the final trailer features a unknown man walking towards something that a lot of people are running away from. According to viewers of the test screenings for the film, these scenes were initially part of the Gordy flashback: they depicted a stalker, obsessed with the show (his pet crab lives in a reproduction of the "Gordy's Home" living room set), who came to set with a gun in an attempt to kidnap one of the stars but ended up becoming the hero of the hour by shooting Gordy instead, creating a "bad miracle".
  • The international trailer features a scene of Emerald on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, vlogging and interacting with a group of tourists, none of which appears in the final film.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Keke Palmer, who refuses to pin down a label but has expressed attraction to men and women, plays Em, who talks about sleeping with her (woman) therapist and mentions that she was planning on staying at her girlfriend's house.
• Throw It In!: In the flashback to the Gordy's Home incident, Young Jupe forgets his line and has to restart the take. This wasn't in the script.
• Viral Marketing:
  • An extremely subtle version: Jordan Peele has never been a regular user of Twitter (for example, after tweeting the first poster in July, his next tweet was seven months later), but following the release of the first trailer, he became slightly more active, almost exclusively retweeting examples of weird atmospheric phenomena (unusual clouds and one instance of a mass bird death). Closer to the film's release, he shifted to retweeting posts about violent monkey/simian incidents...
  • As of July 3, there is a website for Jupiter's Claim, a fictional theme park from the movie. Noticeably, there is a "day" version of the site with standard Western movie music, bright colors, and very upbeat copywriting. However, when it switches to "night," it goes dark, the music slows, and the writing becomes much more sinister.
  • The weekend of the film’s release, Peele tweeted the theme song sequence for the in-universe sitcom Gordy’s Home.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Jesse Plemons was offered the role of Jupe Park, but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts with Killers of the Flower Moon.
  • Angel was originally written as a more “happy-go-lucky” character who would have died during the film’s climax. After Brandon Perea was cast, he pushed for a more grounded take on the character and eventually convinced Peele to allow the character to live so he could appear in any potential sequels.
• Word of Saint Paul:
  • Jean Jacket's designer, John Dabiri, believes that Jean Jacket wasn't truly killed by the explosion of the balloon; rather, it was brought down to a much smaller form it can slowly regenerate from.
  • Dabri also suggests Jean Jacket/its species has been alive on Earth for centuries, and is the inspiration for both UFO stories and "ascending to heaven".
• Working Title: When he began writing the script, Peele called it Little Green Men, which was a reference to both aliens and money. He realized fairly quickly that it "sounded like a movie starring Jeff Fahey you get from a Redbox."

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